Fannie Conant. USA
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Photograph by William H Mumler is of the
Medium Mrs
Fannie Conant of the magazine the Banner of Light. The Spirit extra
is the Spirit of her brother Charles H Crowell 1868,[fully
recognised by all who knew him] The
Banner of Light was a Spiritual Philosophy newspaper that had all manner of
articles ranging from lectures of trance and non trance Spiritualist speakers
and reports from eminent scientists of tests conducted on Mediums of the day and
mediumistic happenings. The Message Department of the magazine was
described as "a page of Spirit-Messages from the departed to their friends in
earth-life, given through the mediumship of Mrs. J. H. Conant, providing direct
spirit-intercourse between the Mundane and Super-Mundane Worlds."
Fanny Conant wrote the book, Flashes of Light from the Spirit-World which
is a 400-page compilation of questions answered by the Spirits through her
Mediumship.
The is another book you might want to try and get hold of; The Biography of
Mrs. Conant, subtitled
Immortality Demonstrated Through Her Mediumship, was published in Boston
by W. White in 1873.
Fannie Conant was born in 1831 in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire and made her transition in 1876 in Boston,
Massachusetts. Fannie was known to have talked with the “angels.” In 1838 as a
child near death, the doctor gave up all hope for her recovery. As it happened,
she gave him a spirit message for the cure of her problem and she was healed.
Fannie grew up to become a famous healer. She also did automatic writing with
both hands, writing on different subjects at the same time.
Her many demonstrations of mediumship were striking. In order to preserve the
many messages received through her, a Spiritualist writer by the name of Allan
Putnam published them in 1872 under the title, Flashes of Light From the Spirit
World.” The content of the messages contained within the book are purely
philosophical in nature and their believed sources are among such well-known
American spokesmen as Thomas Paine, Theodore Parker and many others.
Fanny became a public worker for the religion of Spiritualism in 1852. She was
given instruction for the publishing of the newspaper, Banner of Light, the name
being given to her by Spirit months before the first issue. She served as its
message medium for several years. Fanny also held circles and of her it was
said, “She is a delicate, retiring lady, one of the finest illustrations of
sensitiveness in a long list of notable mediums.”
In 1873, Allen Putnam published an account of her mediumship in the book,
Biography of Mrs. J. H. Conant.
NOTE: The profiles are based on the editor's research plus information contained
in "They" PAVED THE WAY: Spiritualism's Pioneers, by Marilyn Awtry-Smith. The
publication is available through the NSAC Bookstore.
From The National Spiritualist
Association of Churches with minor adjustments.
Mrs. Fannie Conant held spirit circles
(seances), open to the public, at the offices of Banner of Light:
"They are conducted through the mediumship of Mrs. Fanny Conant, a lady who for
several years past has been influenced by Spirits of every rank, grade of life,
and development of mind. These invisible guests throng the Circle room which the
editors of the Banner of Light, with noble and exemplary generosity, open free
to the public. And there, as opportunity permits, they pour forth, through the
entranced organism of Mrs. Conant, the tale of their earthly lives, their vices
and errors, their bitter lamentation for earthly lives misspent, messages of
love and consolation to absent friends, warnings, encouragement, and every
description of characteristic communication that could be conceived of as
emanating from the heterogeneous conditions of human existence. And all this is
represented in the voice, tone, gestures, and even the countenance of this
wonderful Medium, with such graphic fidelity that a witness with closed eyes
might readily persuade himself, he was in the actual presence of all the various
characters thus delineated. The accuracy of these remarkable Spirit personations
is further attested by hundreds of letters addressed to the Banner of Light by
total strangers, who have read and recognized the printed messages from their
Spirit friends."
---Emma Hardinge, Modern American Spiritualism (1879), p. 512.